Technically, Amazon’s Kindle can run games, but the first two games weren’t particularly interesting to play, even if they were free to download. Kindle owners inexplicably looking to game on their e-reader, though, now have the first premium Kindle game to pay to download: Scrabble.

Published by Electronic Arts, Scrabble is available right now for the second generation Kindle and higher, as well as the Kindle DX. It costs $5.

Look, we accept that the Kindle can’t really do anything except slow paced, turn-based word games on its e-ink display… but we’re still puzzled by the missed opportunity of Scrabble. Despite the fact that almost every Kindle out there has ubiquitous 3G, there’s no online multiplayer component to Scrabble for Kindle: it’s local only. That’s such an obvious omission that we wonder why anyone is bothering to bring Scrabble to the Kindle at all: their heart clearly isn’t in it.